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    Symbolically, the sea is what keeps him apart from the world and that creates exile. There are a lot of symbols and images being used to prove the writer's point: "In icy bands, bound with frost, with frozen chains, and hardship groaned around my heart." (9-11). The images represent how he feels and how he sees his life at that moment. Symbolic gestures such as, "The song of the swan might serve for pleasure, the cry of the sea-fowl, the death-noise of birds instead

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    Jenna Uzdarwin 1/30/17 Animal Harm by Pollution: Jenna (Sea/Land Animals) It is known today that 60% of the plastics being dumped into bodies of water get ingested by animals in the oceans (Center for Biological Diversity, http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ocean_plastics/). Humans use plastics everyday, but what we don’t realize is that after recycling our bottles, they end up being dumped into our oceans where ocean life mistakes a plastic bag for a jelly fish. Today plastics can be one

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    raw materials but due to ocean pollution is causing major consequences to sea animals. Mainly the ocean pollution comes from plastic in the ocean but also, “6.4 million tons of garbage enters the oceans every year” (Karpus). By just a simple walk on any beach, anywhere, and people could see plastic or garbage waste. Many people may think this issue does not affect them but, it affects everyone and more sadly enough sea animals. Too many people plastic is a modern-day thing that they must have

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    Marine Pollution Essay

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    There is an extreme amount of garbage in the ocean. The NOAA describes marine debris as, “any persistent solid material that is manufactured or processed and directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally, disposed of or abandoned into the marine environment or the Great Lakes” (Discover the Issue, n.d.). Human waste that is polluting the ocean creates garbage patches, effects marine animals, and damages ocean environments. Pollution in the ocean is out of control and humans should be more

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    Matthew Arnold begins Dover Beach with a beautiful and peaceful image of a sea at night, but by the end of the poem he strips away the beauty, and shows the reader the nightmare, and horror behind the calm ocean. The speaker describes a lovely scene with the water meeting the land, and the moon glimmering off of the water, which creates a captivating image for the reader. The speaker even makes the reader imagine the sounds of the beach “Listen! you hear the grating roar” (9). This puts the reader

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    I think the “One Bottle at a Time (Save the Fishes)” will be about spreading the word about recycling and saving sea life. I predict this because I have previous knowledge about plastic and other objects that could be recycled hurting sea life such as penguins and turtles, and/or being transferred into our oceans. I think the message of this music video is to become eco-friendly and help take part in protecting our ocean and waterway. In the song “One Bottle at a Time(Save the Fishes)” the writer

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    Marine Ecosystems

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    Sea anemones feed from the surrounding water by catching small micro-organisms in their tentacles. For this reason, anemones need constant water to survive which is why none were observed in the boulder area as an area with constant water cannot be guaranteed. Sand is another factor which is present in the boulder area, but not in the rock pools. Sea cucumbers were thriving closer to the low tide mark in the boulder area, yet none were observed in the rock pool area. Sea cucumbers are

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    The Hawksbill Sea Turtle is one of the many sea turtles that are going extinct. People may never know when these cute, big sea turtles will be seen again. The Hawksbill Sea Turtles are one of the many unique animals that should not go away forever and only to be seen in a picture book instead of real life. The Hawksbill Sea Turtle has many wonderful features that other turtles and animals do not have. They get their name, Hawksbill, for their hawk beak like jaw. (Kalman Pg.16) Their jaw is also very

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    Human activities have decreased the population of the Sea Otters, and negatively impacted the trophic levels of the ecological pyramid they belong in. Primarily after the industrial revolution, humans have constantly overexploited the environment, resulting in the gradual loss of biodiversity. Among these struggling organisms are the sea otters, an essential support for trophic levels including the sea urchins, kelp forests, and others. Without otters, dependent marine animals in different trophic

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    Stomolophus meleagris, also known as the cannonball jellyfish, can often and most frequently be found off the shorelines of countries bordering the Pacific Ocean preferably in water temperatures close to 74 degrees Fahrenheit. It is part of the kingdom Animalia and located in the phylum Cnideria. The jellyfish gets its name because it possesses radial symmetry and because of its bell, which can range up to seven inches in diameter. Colors of this jellyfish slightly vary between clear and a gradual

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